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  1. rlong

    Some of my work

    Thanks for all your nice words. The plotter is used to make all the surface detail. I'll usually take a cg mesh, flatten it out, then use the plotter to cut 3 dimensional pieces, but only flat. The plotter makes short work of styrene sheets, and can do incredibly small details that are then glued on the pattern before molding. For instance, this piece here was completely cut out of sheet plastic, then folded together. And the finished piece. For other applications I make complex paint mask's like these. http://sovereignreplicas.com/kkee014.jpg[/img] So I can do paint jobs on these miniatures that I could only dream of doing by hand. I wish they made a scribing blade for the plotters, it produces more than enough downforce to scribe into even plexiglass.
  2. rlong

    Some of my work

    I don't use the plotter for traditional sign making. I use it to cut complex patterns out of styrene to make sci fi miniatures. Here's some examples. All the panels here were cut out of thin styrene. http://sovereignreplicas.com/k_350_063.jpg[/img] And the finished piece, after making a mold and casting it in fiberglass. All the small surface panels were cut on the plotter from styrene. http://www.thelightworks.com/models/img/models/klingonbig_05.jpg[/img] http://www.thelightworks.com/models/img/models/klingonbig_08.jpg[/img] Here's some more examples of what I've used the plotter to make. All of these were scratchbuilt. http://sovereignreplicas.com/sf.htm http://sovereignreplicas.com/ac_4.jpg[/img]
  3. I installed a serial port today and used that instead of the USB and it worked flawlessly. This is a very nice cutter. Thanks
  4. I just got a Creation Pcut. I had a refine before using Signcut X2 with Corel. The pcut won't work with signcut, or with the supplied signblazer software. All the com port settings are correct, but nothing happens.
  5. Thank you for your help. Well since I'm in a rush, I just bought a Creation PCUT CTN-630E from USCutter. I have a question, I'm using Corel Draw with SignCut X2 with the USB. Do I have to change any settings for the new cutter? I'm hoping I can just plug in the USB cable and get right to it, but I doubt it's that easy, but here's hoping.
  6. I have the Refine MH721 with Vista, Signcut2 using the USB on my laptop. The cutter has worked perfectly for the last two years with no issues whatsoever. Hundreds of hours of use. Today, it just stopped working, when I sent the file to the cutter, it made a little move, then did nothing. COM, Baud rate etc. are all correct. I tried everything, nothing worked. The machine still works, it will do a test cut, but when I send a file, it will just make a little move and that's all. Nothing has changed on the connections so I don't understand why it would suddenly behave this way. Thank you for any help.